WS-BPEL 2.0 versus BPEL4WS 1.1

Wiki page: Submitted by carolgeyer on 23. October 2007 - 18:48. Last updated on 14. December 2007 - 0:18.

BPEL4WS 1.1 was contributed to the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee, where it was advanced through an open process. The following list summarizes the major changes the Committee incorporated in WS-BPEL 2.0.

Data Access

Variables can be declared using XML schema complex types

XPath expressions are simplified by using the ‘$’ notation for variable access, for example, $myMsgVar.part1/po:poLine[@lineNo=3]